Energy & Mining

The mine, which is on the cusp of being constructed after two decades of exploration and planning work, would be one of the largest open-pit gold mines in the world.

The legislation would give the Alaska Department of Natural Resources the authority to promote two forms of carbon management and sequestration.

Exxon’s climate research decades back painted an accurate picture of global warming, according to a new scientific paper. Still the oil company continued climate-denying policy efforts.

“This was the market speaking,” economist Roger Marks said. “And the market is pretty knowledgeable.”

The city is expecting more electric customers to jump onto the grid in the next five-to-ten years.

There’s no guarantee oil and gas companies will place bids in next week’s sale.

The tracts cover Wasilla down to Anchor Point, both onshore and off.

Alaska’s revenue forecast, to be updated this week, relies on oil futures markets that are at their lowest point this year.

The substation attack in a North Carolina county proved, once again, that the country’s power grid is susceptible to sabotage. Security experts say it’s America’s Achilles heel.

The agency’s assistant administrator for water has 60 days to decide whether to impose the veto, make would effectively kill the mine.